Legal stenographer (1925-1939)
Established a private practice with Loretta Savage, Lockwood & Savage (1939-1942)
Legislator in the Arizona House of Representatives (1939-1940, 1941-1942, 1947-1948)
Secretary to Representative John Murdock (1942-1943)
District Price Attorney for the Office of Price Administration (1943-1945)
Joined Cox, Lockwood & Lockwood (1944-1947)
Served in the State Legislature again and was Chair of the House Judiciary Committee (1947-1949)
Assistant attorney general (1948-1951)
Judge of the Arizona Superior Court (1951-1960)
Judge on Arizona Supreme Court (1961-1975)
Chief Justice of the Arizona Supreme Court (1965-1966, 1970-1971)

Firsts:

Woman to receive a J.D. degree from the University of Arizona College of Law (1925)
Woman in Arizona appointed Assistant Attorney General (1948)
Woman to sit on the bench of the Arizona Superior Court (1951)
Woman to become Chief Justice of a State Supreme Court (1965)